Klaas Van Gelder

Klaas Van Gelder’s research encompasses social, political and cultural history of early modern Europe. Within the framework of the FED-tWIN project ACCESS, he currently focuses on access to early modern justice and the profile of litigants in law courts at different levels of society (urban, regional), with a regional focus on the Duchy of Brabant. His further research interests include revolts and revolutions, ritual and ceremony and its legal and political functions, and legislation and the regulation of everyday life in the early modern society. He is the author of Regime Change at a Distance: Austria and the Southern Netherlands Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1716-1725) (Leuven 2016) and the editor of More Than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries (New York 2021).

Klaas Van Gelder’s research encompasses social, political and cultural history of early modern Europe. Within the framework of the FED-tWIN project ACCESS, he currently focuses on access to early modern justice and the profile of litigants in law courts at different levels of society (urban, regional), with a regional focus on the Duchy of Brabant. His further research interests include revolts and revolutions, ritual and ceremony and its legal and political functions, and legislation and the regulation of everyday life in the early modern society. He is the author of Regime Change at a Distance: Austria and the Southern Netherlands Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1716-1725) (Leuven 2016) and the editor of More Than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries (New York 2021).